The Mayor of Marseille Benoit Payant appeals to McCourt!
The Mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan, reacted publicly to the crisis that Olympique de Marseille is currently going through. He calls on McCourt to act to call for calm.
Asked about the crisis currently facing OM, Marseille Mayor Benoit Payant appeals for calm and asks Frank McCourt, the American owner of the Marseille club to intervene:
“We will speak to each other very clearly. The ‘it is said’, the ‘it is said that’… all that doesn’t work. I called him in the morning (the day of Longoria’s interview in La Provence). Today, justice has taken action itself. It was not Pablo who filed the complaint. It was the public prosecutor who opened (an investigation). And I condemn all violence, wherever it comes from. My role is to call for calm. My role is not to divide. OM is an institution. When there are excesses, on one side or the other, when there are mistakes, on one side or the other, I speak out. Today, I need to disentangle the false from the true. What I want is for people to talk to each other, for us to return to calm. My role is to soothe. This is not to rub salt in the wounds. (…)
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OM belongs to its shareholder on an institutional level, but not only…
“I do not want to politicize the issues of Olympique de Marseille,” continues the Mayor of Marseille. OM does not belong to a political clan. It belongs to the Mareillaises and the Marseillais, to its supporters, of course to its shareholder on an institutional level, but not only that. So we must protect this institution. And so the main shareholder (Frank McCourt) will have to take his responsibilities to call for calm. Pablo was very affected by what happened. I have no subject to support it. I’m just saying that I don’t always jump into action whenever there’s the slightest problem. For a long time in Marseille we were used to having politicians who went to cry on television sets and who did not act. Me, rather than coming to whine on a television set, I act. We must now bring everyone around the table so that we come out on top. I’m tired of my city setting a bad example because some people have fun making it worse. »
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